This makes going into Beserk a risk/reward in most situations. However during this state, you begin to lose health over time until you have very little health left. When in Berserk mode, your weapon attacks dela more damage and you move a lot faster than normal. You can go into a Beserk state rather than self-destruct by clicking both 元 & R3. But choosing A2 will open up different elements of gameplay previously inaccessible beforehand during the game.Ī2 controls in a very similar fashion to that of 2B, with only one major addition to her abilities. During this time, you also have the option to choose to play as 9S on your third playthrough. However, unlike your previous two playthroughs, you'll experience different events that take place after 2B and 9S story. On your third playthrough of Nier Automata, you have the ability to play as the android A2. You can also find additional Archives in some of these chests that open up information in your Intel section of the menus. Hacking these chests will yield extra materials and sometimes new weapons. More importantly however, you can open up the chests found throughout the story that 2B could not open beforehand. Though the events that follow are the same, sometimes you'll see an alternate cutscene that gives mroe backstory to the plot. This becomes key in some of the later battles where you face Adam, Eve, and even some of the other robot bosses. You can also manually hack enemies to either take control of them, deal extra damage, or in some cases instantly destory them. The biggest change are the number of Hacking mini-games you will need to complete during some sections of the story.

In a few specfic sections of the story, 9S will have to take some actions that you didn't need to do so as 2B, but the outcomes of the battles and plot are the same. This offers an alternate perspective to everything that happened in your previous playthrough, but there are a few slight differences in both the cutscenes and gameplay. On your second playthrough of Nier Automata, you can control 9S during the events of 2B's story.

The story continus after the events that happened beforehand, but comes to a full climax and conclusion by the time you finish the game with A2. Your third playthrough will allwo you to control the android A2 after the events of your previous playthroughs with 2B and 9S. Your first two playthroughs will be with 2B and 9S, which will be focused on similar events but from different perspectives, offering alternate scenes and plot details. You play as three characters throughout all of NieR Automata's main story. Jump to any section of the game with this walkthrough:ĭifferences in New Playthroughs of NieR: Automata If you want to prevent anything about the plot being spoiled for you, please limit yourself to the specific section of the game you have reached. NOTE: There will be spoilers included within this guide.

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